Saturday, December 11, 2010

midnight at Helsinki station with the stone men




Helsinki's central railway station, opened in 1919 was designed 10 years earlier by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, with a pure "national romanticist" design. The station is mostly clad in Finnish granite, and its most famous features are its clock tower and the two pairs of statues holding the spherical lamps on either side of the main entrance. There is another pair of different statues at a side entrance with lamps on the chest, shown.

Yes, the photos of the front were taken at midnight in summer.

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